NAOSHIMA, Kagawa Prefecture—Officials here are racking their brains over how to reinstall Yayoi Kusama’s “Yellow Pumpkin,” a tourist-luring piece of art that was badly damaged when it was ...
In 1973, after a decade or so making shockwaves across the art world, Yayoi Kusama checked herself into a mental health facility. The artist, now 95 years old and still residing in the same Tokyo ...
Thirty years ago, Japanese salaryman Daisuke Miyatsu saw a Yayoi Kusama artwork he just had to have – leading to a new life as an art collector, an art professor and one of Kusama’s biggest fans.
Though it has never been explicitly called Anthropocene art, in the retrospective of the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama currently showing at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV ...